Posted on 09/07/2006 11:14:52 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Myself, I'm not too worried about the TTC being part of a "NAFTA Highway" scheme, since, as far as I know, no other DOT in the states supposedly affected by the NAFTA Highway project have such corridors on their drawing boards. And nothing of the sort was mentioned in that PPP pdf that hedgetrimmer linked us to.
I was merely referring to the tremendous leaps of "logic" in the comment I selected. There is no avoiding the conclusion that the reasoning is impaired in some fashion.
If I recall correctly, the OECD threatened several small countries with a reduction or elimination of investment in these countries unless they "got with the program" as it were and enacted higher-tax regimes. The extortion was something along those lines, anyhow.
You know what? I sincerely hope I'm wrong. I hope that the OECD is as innocuous as you appear to think it is.
I can't help bu agree there. Unless there's some connection I don't know about, the UN and OECD are entirely separate organizations.
A good number of them are members of the EU, which purports to claim authority on tax issues, and most of the others are large enough to tell the OECD to stick it (if what you say is true).
So maybe I'm not crazy about Perry but I'll take him over those two any day. Neither have a clue.
The Trans Texas Corridor is an Illuminati plot, and you know it.
The difference is he'd still be an improvement.
On the other hand, maybe it was the EU I was thinking of...
"The current head of the OECD was born in Mexico. Mexico (and other OECD nations) are members of the UN. Therefore, the UN (despite having no relation to the OECD other than a country may belong to both), through its Mexican proxy, is "screwing the American taxpayer" for the TTC (a "free trade road," whatever that is)"
The "current head" (American terminology) is actually Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD. Now I wonder why I assumed he was from the UN or related to it? In my little old town we have a Mayor, in my county we have a county commissioner, and in my state we have a Governor. Now whenever we have problems we just take them to Judge Judy and she solves them all. I really never studied about secretary-generals and tribunals in school or college. I'd of probably gotten an "F" as I liked your words "current head" better than Secretary-general. So maybe you could tell me the names of your school books that have so much of this knowledge and I will get them from my local library. So excuse my ignorance as I just figured that a secretary-general was somehow connected to the UN.
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?m=12021&intItemID=1942&lang=1
" Programme Events
Event: OECD/UNCTAD Workshop on Services
Date: 27 June 2006
Location: Geneva
Venue: Palais des Nations, Room XXVI
Description: The OECD/UNCTAD Workshop on Services aims to assist trade negotiators and policy makers in the current GATS negotiations.
The key objective of the workshop is to help officials of WTO Members - particularly developing countries - in gaining a greater insight into the particular issues of importance in a number of services sectors and how they might be approached in the negotiations.
The sectors covered include:
business support services;
logistics and related services;
construction and related engineering services;
energy services; and
environmental services.
In addition to members of the UNCTAD and OECD Secretariats, academics and other experts will help facilitate the presentations and participate in the discussions."
They look pretty cozy to me. You must have missed your workshop, Rudeboy. This UN web page has a purdy color blue on it. Go See.
Hesre is another site with the blue trimming yhou might be interested in.
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?
intItemID=2260&lang=1
"Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
The United Nations Statistical Commission established an Inter-Agency Task Force in 1995 to strengthen the cooperation between international organizations and to promote the development of concepts, definitions and classifications in the area of statistics in international trade in services. The aim of the Task Force is to better meet the needs of a variety of producers and users of these statistics particularly statistical compilers, but also governments and international organizations that need statistical information in connection with international negotiations pertaining to trade in services, and also businesses and others that wish to assess developments in international services markets.
Membership of the Task Force comprises the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with OECD as chair and secretariat"
I'll say, a very impressive task force. Look who was chosed as chair and secretariat. None other than the OECD.
Go ahead and post whatever meaningless links you wish. If you cannot understand the difference between a Chamber of Commerce and a Rotary Club, and how someone can belong to each, then it is fruitless to try and explain.
I find it strange that you are using American comparisons. The Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, why not the Boy Scouts and Cup Scouts?
You can bet these alphabet soup groups are from the UN. Note what the UN has to say about this group. This is the alphabet group of foreign election observers. The OSCE website denied or didn't admit to being part of the UN.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue4/0402p16.html
Excerpt....
OSCE by definition is a regional organization whose authority is based on Chapter VIII.
Excerpt....
" As long as regional organizations contribute to a global agenda, complement the work of other international organizations and add to the collective wisdom that shapes the United Nations, they serve the purpose and are extremely valuable to the world Organizationthe more successful they are, the less is needed for UN involvement"
You can bet that as long as these alphabet soup groups have "secretary-generals", I'll always think of them as related to the UN.
You nailed it. I enjoyed reading your link. Hopefully, the Canadians will go for it.
The WH has published the new spp agreement. Go to TOS. I have been over there reading. I am glad the Canadians published this as theirs is informative.
I really fear for our country.
Dude, give up. Now you've confused the OECD with the OSCE (I think). It's getting difficult to keep track of your errors . . . not that it was easy in the first place.
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